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Francis Patrick Joseph Moran – pioneer profile

16/10/2021 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The following story has been very kindly shared with us by Philip Moran, Grandson of Frank Moran, and with permission from the Moran family: Francis Patrick Joseph Moran a Life in Summary Francis ‘Frank’ Patrick Joseph MORAN was born on 18 December 1879. He was the son of Francis and Bridget Moran (Marron). He married […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Hotels, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Hotels, Western Australia

Fanny Hannah Hunt – pioneer profile

09/10/2021 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

GOLD- that commodity was so powerful, but as a child, I played with it as a toy. It was a glass phial of specks and small nuggets in liquid and tightly corked. I remember shaking it and watching the dull yellow stuff glint in the light. I must have loved it as no accident ever […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

A History of Lodge Golden Thistle –

18/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

A HISTORY OF LODGE GOLDEN THISTLE No. 840 S.C. First Scottish Lodge erected on the Eastern Goldfields of WA By Bro. Doug Daws PDGM, Hon, SGW (Scot.) – August 2021 Although Coolgardie is now known to most West Australians as a tourist town and refueling stop on the road to the Eastern States, in the […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Masonic, Western Australia

Gold and Ghosts –

11/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The murder-suicide tragedy of Nurse Elizabeth Gold and Kenneth Snodgrass, is a tale quite widely known about but I have not before told the story on the Outback Family History Blog. In Coolgardie in the 1890’s, Elizabeth Gold, Kenneth Snodgrass, and Charles Gold were living in Coolgardie. As with many tragedies, the interest lies within […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Coolgardie, Goldfields History, murder, Western Australia

Lulu Benstead – ‘The Westralian Warbler’

04/09/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Lulu (Lucelle) Stuart Benstead was born in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory on the 5th February 1891. The daughter of goldfields pioneer, Bill (William) Benstead and Triphenia Lucelle Willesee nee RAINS. She travelled to Coolgardie with her family, arriving in about 1895. Lulu is believed to be the first white child to be born […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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